Reading Workshop 17th November 2017 How can we challenge our more able readers?

It paves the way for success in school and later life. Reading is vital! It paves the way for success in school and later life. Research shows that it's the single most important thing you can do to help your child's education. There are many reasons why we read and therefore why children will read: for pleasure and interest for work to learn about the world e.g. in papers to obtain information e.g. recipes and signs

Continues to develop throughout life! Word Recognition The ability to recognise words presented in and out of context. The ability to apply phonic rules - blending phonemes to decode. Comprehension The process by which word information, sentences and text are interpreted. The same processes underlie comprehension of both oral and written language. Developing comprehension so that children begin to think beyond the text! Continues to develop throughout life!

Developing Vocabulary Aim - Develop oral vocabulary (Tier 2). Encourage children to use a dictionary to find the meanings of difficult words. Find alternative words using a thesaurus. Tier 1 Help Choose Clever Bad Tier 2 Assist Select Cunning Sinister Mediocre Relevance Collaborate Regulation   Tier 3 Peninsular Pentagon Hemisphere Apostrophe Minerals

Read a good quality text It is great for children to re-read their favourite books as it’s most important that they love to read! As your child becomes a fluent, able reader they then need to be suitably challenged. There are many excellent authors but some children’s books don’t do enough to stretch your child’s vocabulary and to get them thinking at a higher level. Are there words in the books that make them think? https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/

Classic texts Why not try something different and go for one of these older ‘classic’ texts? Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien I Capture the Castle By Dodie Smith Mary Poppins By Pamela L. Travers Peter Pan By J. M. Barrie Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/563741/Top-tips-to-get-your-children-to-read-classic-books

Recommendations Authors • Malorie Blackman • Judy Blume • Roald Dahl • Anne Fine • Nigel Hinton • Anthony Horowitz • Michael Morpurgo • Robert Swindells • Robert Westall • Jacqueline Wilson

Improve your child’s knowledge of the world To be able to understand texts children need to make connections to real life or to other things they have read or seen. As your child experiences new things their knowledge of the world grows. It is important to talk to them about the things around them and to relate their experiences to others. Try to encourage your child to read non-fiction texts too. The ‘First News’ newspaper is a great resource and fun to read! Also watching ‘Newsround’ can help with their general knowledge. The more we get children to read or experience, the better their understanding will be. Ask questions, encourage them to ask you!

How can we develop higher order thinking?

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